Another one of those

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Originally Posted by BaronVonFlapJack

Im on the other side of the fence than Filmmaking Fiasco. If it is out on both fomrats, at this time, I go with HD DVD. I just got into Blu Ray last month and I have been hugely dissapointed with the quality of lots of movies. My first order arrived from Amazon, House of Flying Daggers, Casino Royale, Prestige, Pearl Harbor and XMen3. Other than Casino and Prestige, which did look great, I was HUGELY disspointed in the quality of the other titles, namely X3 and Pearl Harbor, which I expected to look fantastic. Again, after reading reviews, I found out about the different codecs each one was formatted with, and thats why they look crappy. Quite honestly, my dvd of the same title upconverted looked better, there was so much digital noise on the Blu Ray disc. When you are touting yourself as Beyond High Def then you damn well better be Beyond High Def with your releases, not Beyond DVD. I have yet to be disspointed with a HD DVD release, at least the ones I have purchased, and I own over 30 titles in that format.

Baron, you're totally wrong. X-Men III looks fantastic. It looks better sharper and clearer than the Scope 35mm prints. (I saw it twice in 2 different theaters). It's not the codec, that's total misinformation from your part. What you call "so much digital noise on the Blu-ray Disc" is called grain, it's part of the image. It's what makes up the image. The X-Men III disc is so incredibly sharp you can see every image-creating grain from this Super-35 shot film with pinpoint sharpness. It's one of my favorite discs. If seeing the image presented with a sharpness that surpasses the 35mm print presentation is not to your liking, turn the sharpness down to emulate the theatrical experience, or better yet, if you have a projector, misfocus the knob a little. Honest.
Or, just downsample the image to 480, like watching the DVD, which decimates all the grain and detail in the proccess, like the average multiplex.


Not Beyond DVD. . Beyond 35mm. Beyond High Definition.




I've said it before and I'll say it again. Sadly, these days, apparently some people don't know how 35mm film truly looks like (maybe from long exposure to bad theaters and years of home video) and expect everything to look like a CGI movie..